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St Pancras 1890

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: Table No. 3— E. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1890. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

Table No. 3— E. ST. PANCRAS PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1890. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

AGES.
0 to 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 & upwardsTotalsUnder 5 years
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
Smallpox.1.—Miasmatic Diseases. Vaccinated.......................................
Unvaccinated.......................................
No Statement.......................................
Measles2690141.....................131116
Scarlet Fever1179........................2718
Typhus.......................................
Whooping Cough43916........................140134
Diphtheria68149311...............14187
Simple Continued & Ill-defined Fever...1...........................11
Enteric or Typhoid Fever...171082...3...1...322
Other Miasmatic Diseases (Chickenpox)42225127354...466
2.—Diarrheal Diseases. Simple Cholera1.........1..................21
Diarrhoea, Dysentery1203521114442...174155
3.—Malarial Diseases. Remittent Fever.......................................
Ague.......................................
4.—Zoogenous Diseases. Cowpox and Effects of Vaccination.......................................
Other Diseases (e.g.. Hydrophobia, Glanders, Splenic Fever).......................................
5.—Venereal Diseases. Syphilis272......2...11.........3329
Gonorrhæa, Stricture of Urethra.......................................
6.—Septic Diseases. Erysipelas61......142323...227
Pyæmia, Septicaemia1...1232121......131
Puerperal Fever.........293...............14...
II.—Parasitic Diseases, Thrush, and other Vegetable Parasitic Diseases5..............................55
Worms, Hydatids, and other Animal Parasitic Diseases...1...........................11
III.—Dietic Diseases. Want of Breast Milk, Starvation9..............................99
Scurvy.......................................
Chronic Alcoholism.........14127921...36...
Delirium Tremens............311.........5...
IV.—Constitutional Diseases.
Rheumatic Fever, Rheumatism of the Heart...2577232.........282
Rheumatism...............1111......4...
Gout.....................51......6...
Rickets1012...........................2222
Cancer, Malignant Disease1...2152648483326...1901
Tabes Mesenterica40274411...............7767
Tubercular Meningitis,Hydrocephalus19308...111............6049
Phthisis8796613515811051112...55715
Other forms of Tuberculosis, Scrofula261811662313......7641
Purpura, Hemorrhagic Diathesis.........1.....................1...
Anæmia, Chlorosis, Leucocythæmia1...1...22211......101
Glycosuria, Diabetes Mellitus......1...22214......12...
Other Constitutional Diseases.........2.........1...1...4...